ftboa.com • Thursday • April 11, 2019 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION or to subscribe, please call Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or email: [email protected] In This Issue: Improbable Leads Arkansas Derby Entries Numbers Say Santa Anita Track is Safer Florida-bred World of Trouble Wins Grade 1 Carter Handicap Imprimis Impressive in Shakertown Score Kentucky Oaks Leaderboard Kentucky Derby Leaderboard Sale topping Tapit Filly/KEENELAND PHOTO Tampa Bay Downs Charts Tapit Filly Commands Florida Stallion Progeny List Florida Breeders’ List $1.3 Million At Return Wire to Wire Business Place Of Keeneland April Sale Featured Advertisers BY KEENELAND PRESS OFFICE____ The average was $90,799, and the median was $40,000. Ocala Stud LEXINGTON, KY—A 2-year-old daughter “Trade was very good,” Keeneland Double Diamond of Tapit and Grade 1-winner My Director of Sales Operations Geoffrey Conquestadory, who is a full sister to 2019 Russell said. “The racehorses were well Arindel Xpressbet Fountain of Youth (G2) runner- received. Strong trade continued into the 2- Oakton Farm up Bourbon War, sold to Chad Schumer as year-old portion of the sale. The [sale-top- an agent, for $1.3 million to top ping] Tapit filly was on everybody’s list, Stonehedge Farm Keeneland’s April Two-Year-Olds in with a good update from Bourbon War and Florida Department of Agriculture Training and Horses of Racing Age Sale. a great work she turned in yesterday during The April Sale returned Tuesday after a the Preview Show. Her sale showed the FTBOA five-year hiatus and featured for the first money is here for those kind of horses. Seminole Feed time an offering of horses of racing age. “We’re in a rebuilding process for this During the single-session sale, Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply Keeneland sold 67 horses for $6,083,500. See KEENELAND on page 3 Journeyman Stud Back to Top Page 3 Keeneland Continued from COVER sale,” Russell continued. “Some people were willing to rebuild with us, and some people wanted to wait and see. We hope they saw and will participate next year.” Keeneland held the April Sale from 1993-2014, and graduates include six clas- sic winners: Belmont (G1) winner Palace Malice; Preakness (G1) winner and cham- pion Lookin At Lucky; Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness winner and champion Big Brown; Kentucky Derby and Belmont winner and champion Thunder Gulch; and Kentucky Oaks (G1) winners Keeper Hill and Gal in a Ruckus. Champion Beautiful Pleasure also is an April Sale graduate. The 2014 auction produced champions Lady Eli and Roy H. During Monday’s Preview Show, which featured cataloged juveniles working over the dirt track and turf course, the sale-topping Tapit filly breezed an eighth-of-a-mile in the co-fastest time of :10 over the main track. Dean DeRenzo and Randy Hartley/KEENELAND PHOTO “She is a tremendous physical, she had racing age is this year’s Twinspires.com almost 30 years. We have a broodmare a superb breeze and her gallop out was Fair Grounds Oaks (G2) third-place finish- band of about 12 and try to focus on qual- really strong,” said Schumer, who bought er, Sweet Diane. Ina Bond’s River Bend ity rather than quantity. Eddie Kenneally the filly for Prince Sultan Bin Mishal Al Farm acquired the 3-year-old daughter of trains for us, so he is going to train [her]. Saud of Saudi Arabia. “She is by one of the Will Take Charge, who has been in the We have high hopes that this will turn into leading sires of all time and she has a mas- money in each of her five career starts. something fun.” sive pedigree. [The price] is not an unex- ELiTE as an agent, consigned Sweet Sweet Diane has 22 points on the Road pected number. [For] a Tapit with that kind Diane, who is from the family of Glinda to the Kentucky Oaks (G1) to rank 16th on of pedigree, you have to expect to pay that the Good, dam of champion Good Magic, the list of leading point earners. The top 14 kind of money. She was an obvious choice. and Grade 1-winner Magical Maiden. She point earners will earn a spot in the starting “Once you get above a certain number it was a late supplement to the sale. gate for the $1.25 million Oaks at is kind of numbing. I have never gone that “This is a new direction for us,” River Churchill Downs on May 3. high before, so it has not sunk in yet. Bend Farm Manager Larry Weeden said. ELiTE was the leading consigner, sell- Hopefully, she will be a Grade 1 horse.” “We have been selling yearlings here for ing eight horses for $1.31 million. With the purchase, Schumer was the day’s leading buyer. Hartley/DeRenzo Thoroughbreds of Ocala, Fla., as an agent, consigned the sale-topper, whose dam, a daughter of Artie Schiller, won Keeneland’s Darley Alcibiades (G1) in 2013. “We shipped in about 10 days ago,” con- signor Dean De Renzo said. “The weather is a little cooler than Florida, and [horses] thrive when they come here. She is a May foal, and we have taken our time with her. We wanted to target a sale that is a little later in the year. We hope that Keeneland continues having this sale because we love the timing and we love to sell here. “[Because the sale is during the race meet], everybody is here – owners, trainers, bloodstock agents and farm owners who see a filly like that and think she will have a lot of broodmare value later after she races. That is a reason we brought fillies here: to attract breeders who are in this area.” At $500,000, the top-priced horse of Back to Top Back to Top Page 5 Improbable Leads Arkansas Derby Entries BY BROCK SHERIDAN______________________________ The winners of both divisions of the Mar. 16 Rebel Stakes (Grade 2) at Oaklawn Park were expected to enter Wednesday for Saturday’s $1 million Arkansas Derby (G1), but neither is expected to be the morning line favorite. Instead, that honor will likely be bestowed upon the Bob Baffert-trained Improbable, who was second as the 2-5 favorite in the second division of the mile-and-one-sixteenth Rebel Stakes won by Long Range Toddy. The first division of the Rebel was won by Omaha Beach, who was a nose better than Baffert’s other beaten favorite, Game Winner. Each division of the Rebel was worth $750,000. The mile-and-one-eighth Arkansas Derby is the final race on the Road to the Kentucky Derby along with the Grade 3 Lexington Stakes to be run at Keeneland, also on Saturday. However, the Arkansas Derby offers 170 points to the first four finishers on a 100-40-20-10 basis respectively while Lexington runners will be vying for 34 points divided on a 20-8-4-2 schedule. The top 20 point leaders, including two possible invitees based on separate points standings in Japan and Europe, will make the starting gate for the Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve (G1) to be run at Churchill Downs on Nov. 4. Master Fencer (Jpn) is expected to accept an invitation as the Japanese point leader leaving 19 slots for North American Improbable/COADY PHOTO horses. Currently, Omaha Beach is number 19 in the standings number 27 in the Derby standings with 25 points, so he will with 37.5 points earned in the Rebel, just behind Toyota Blue likely need to finish first or second in the Arkansas Derby to Grass Stakes (G2) third-place-finisher Signalman with 38 make the trip to Kentucky. points. Jose Ortiz has been named to ride Improbable. No Eurpean qualifier is expected in this year’s Kentucky Omaha Beach, who is trained by Richard Mandella, is more Derby. experienced than Improbable with six career starts, but only Improbable was undefeated in the three starts before the graduated from the maiden special weight ranks in his race Rebel having won a maiden special at Santa Anita on Sept. 29 just prior to the Rebel. However, his maiden-breaking per- in his first start, the Nov. 2 Street Sense Stakes at Churchill formance was an impressive one having won his seven furlong Downs and the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Cash Call Futurity at Los test by nine lengths at Santa Anita on Feb. 2. Alamitos on Dec. 8. The son of City Zip is currently ranked at Omaha Beach is by War Front and he races for Rick and Betsy Porter’s Fox Hill Farm. Mike Smith will be aboard Omaha Beach. Long Range Toddy hails from the barn of trainer Steve Asmussen and is owned by Willis Horton Racing LLC. Before his Rebel victory, his 2019 starts included a second- place finish in the $150,000 Smarty Jones Stakes won by Gray Attempt at Oaklawn on Jan. 25 and a third-place finish behind winner Super Steed in the Grade 3 Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn on Feb. 18. The son of Take Charge Indy has 53.5 Derby points, which ranks 11th, and is expected to safely qualify for a trip to Kentucky. Jon Court is set to ride Long Range Toddy. Gary Attempt comes back in the Arkansas Derby after win- ning the $125,000 Gazebo Stakes at Oaklawn on Mar. 23, a race that did not offer any Kentucky Derby points. Trainer William Fires said he needed to instill some confidence in the son of Graydar after he finished 11th in the Southwest Stakes.